Sarajevo Film Festival has been granted support by UNESCO to execute a study on its cultural, economic and social impact on Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will be conducted in cooperation with Olsberg•SPI. 

Jonathan Olsberg delivered a presentation at this year’s AVIA Asia Video Summit in Singapore during a Policy Roundtable co-sponsored by Disney, HBO, Hotstar, NBCUniversal, and Netflix.

SPI Associate Director Andrew Barnes will chair panels on skills development challenges and opportunities related to the screen sectors in Ireland at Screen Skills Ireland's Screen Industry Education Forum on Tuesday 5th November.

An Irish Times article on Ireland's aim to become a global centre of excellence for film references the economic analysis and strategy undertaken by Olsberg•SPI with Nordicity for the Irish Government.

Olsberg•SPI has delivered the results of its Production Infrastructure and Capacity Audit (PICA) of Sweden at two industry presentations in Gothenburg and Stockholm on September 23rd and 24th.

The Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) has released today Best Practice in Screen Sector Development, a new report by Olsberg•SPI that examines effective strategies and policies used by governments around the world to maximise their share of the high-value screen production market.

SPI Chairman Jonathan Olsberg will moderate two panels on the global production deluge at AFCI Cineposium 2019 in St Petersburg later this month. Leon Forde will also attend from SPI.

n collaboration with Ontario Creates, SPI's Associate Director Andrew Barnes will present the results of its evaluation of TIFF, including key findings on how people are using the festival, and the organisation’s impact on the Canadian and Ontario production sectors.

Olsberg•SPI, a leading boutique screen sector consultancy with a global client base, has a new position for an energetic and talented research associate to join our office in central London.

SPI Chairman Jonathan Olsberg will participate in a panel on the Role of Film Production in Russia at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday 7th June.

SPI today publishes Global Film Production Incentives, a White Paper undertaken for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) which provides detailed insight into the growth of the film production incentives landscape worldwide.

Featured in World of Locations magazine, published by Media Business Insight, the Global Incentives Index is compiled by SPI and updated twice annually. It provides a detailed overview of all automatic national, state, and province-level incentive mechanisms.

Leon Forde, Associate Director of Olsberg•SPI, will deliver a presentation on the different models of cinema incentives and their effects on audiovisual activity at a conference in Palma on April 13th.

Rotorua’s Steambox Films collective and the region’s film office, Bay of Plenty Film, have announced the engagement of Olsberg•SPI to undertake a feasibility study into the establishment of a film studio in the Bay of Plenty.

Olsberg SPI have been retained by the Netherlands Post-Production Alliance (NPA) to conduct a study into the post-production and VFX sector in the Netherlands.

Danish business magazine Mandag Morgen has published an analysis on European fiscal incentives, considering the case for the introduction of such a scheme in Denmark.

To assist the British Film Industry (BFI) in developing its international strategy, Olsberg•SPI in association with David Steele have delivered analysis and advice to the BFI on the current state of the global film sector and the UK industry’s place within it.

The latest issue of Makers, a magazine focused on global production published by The Location Guide, features an article by SPI on the challenges and opportunities created by the current high levels of film and television production.

SPI’s Associate Director Leon Forde will moderate a panel on issues related to global production and capacity at the Focus event in London on December 4th.

Olsberg SPI's Jonathan Olsberg and Andrew Barnes presented a report today at the Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event strand of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on Trends and Expectations in the World of Fiscal Incentives aimed at supporting media production.